Bigley v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute

OPINION

CARPENETI, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A psychiatric patient committed to the Alaska Psychiatric Institute (APT) challenges the superior court's order approving API's petition for involuntary administration of psychotropic drugs under AS 47.80.8389. He alleges that the trial court violated due process guarantees and that it erred in its findings that API's proposed treatment was in his best interests and that no less intrusive alternative was available. Because the patient was subsequently released without treatment, the case is technically moot, but we decide it because it falls within the…